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The Old Republic Talks Update 7.0
PSA: Get the Old Republic Expansions Free With This Code (Limited Time)
If you’ve been holding off on the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansions for a while now, your patience has officially paid out. To celebrate the launch of Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox One, Bioware is giving away both Old Republic expansions to anyone who uses a simple code by the time the promotion ends. The code is REVANRETURNS and can be redeemed at this link, and if you’re into things like free mounts, you can also get your hands on a free speeder with the code KOTORSPEEDER.
Codes expire Monday, November 6, 2017 at 11:59PM PST / Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 7:59PM GMT. The promotional code includes Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan
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And Then There Were 5: The Old Republic Merges Servers
Star Wars: The Old Republic has come a long way since its 2011 launch, and Bioware has plenty in store for the game going forward. Details regarding the upcoming United Forces update hit the official website today, and a big part of the update involves merging the seventeen remaining servers down to five. There will be two North American and three European servers, one for English, French, and German in the latter category.
The United Forces update expands your connection to a galactic-sized community of players. We will be integrating our existing seventeen servers to five new servers, one for each existing region and language. Our goal is to make this experience as simple and rewarding as possible.
The FAQ goes into detail in regards to legacy ranks, achievements, and more. Premium subscribers who have more than 52 characters per server following the merge will be accommodated for but will be unable to create new characters as long as they are above the limit. Free players will have all characters above the 2 per server limit deactivated.
Currently, a Premium (Subscriber) account is allowed a maximum of 52 characters per server. Following the United Forces update, accounts with more than 52 characters on a server will be accommodated. You will still be able to access and play each of those characters. However, if you wish to make any new characters after that point, you will need to delete characters until you are back at or below the cap of 52. For Free-to-Play accounts, this process will work a little differently. Following the United Forces update, if your account has characters beyond the Free-to-Play limit of 2, then all your characters will be set to ‘deactivated’. This allows you to log in and choose which characters you would like to activate and play.
Bioware’s announcement of the mergers has received some criticism from players on Role Playing servers being merged into standard servers.
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The Old Republic Story Continues March
Bioware has announced that the next chapter in the Knights of the Fallen Empire story will launch on March 10th. Titled Disavowed, the new story content brings back Major Jorgan to assist the player deep behind enemy lines. It will be up to you to decide how far the Major can go.
Disavowed will be available for free to subscribers, with an HK-55 helmet given out to anyone who subscribes by March 1st. New players can jump right in with a level 60 character.
(Source: Bioware Press Release)
SWTOR Knocks Out Massive Credit Selling Ring
The Old Republic crew has busted up a credit selling ring spanning hundreds of accounts, taking billions of credits out of the economy and ensuring that Han Solo will never be able to pay back Jabba.
Last week, we took action against an entire selling ring. Over multiple weeks, we investigated and compiled evidence about a large Credit selling ring which spanned across hundreds of accounts and a variety of servers. To help thwart any possible reactions from this group, we simultaneously actioned every account in this Credit selling ring. In total, we banned hundreds of accounts and removed over nine billion credits from those accounts.
(Source: SWTOR)
The Old Republic Nixes Training Costs
Bioware has announced that next week training costs will be a thing of the past. Community manager Eric Musco posted the announcement on the Bioware forums today, revealing that next week’s update will completely remove the cost of training abilities, allowing players to train their characters completely free of charge. The announcement comes after the latest major update forced players to rebuy many of their abilities to a fairly expensive tune. Players took to the forums to air their grievances on the update, leading to this announcement.
It is a situation where every level you will see your hard earned credits go to a holographic Hutt doctor in order to make yourself a bit stronger. We have been talking about this topic internally for quite some time and when you add player feedback to the mix one thing becomes clear… We should make training costs a thing of the past.
Players who already dumped large amounts of credits on retraining their skills are out of luck, as Musco confirmed later in the thread that Bioware is not offering any compensation to players.
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EA Filing Blames The Old Republic For Revenue Losses
While Bioware has wasted no time discussing how popular The Old Republic is, revealing at Gamescom that over one million players log in monthly, with Super Data Research placing the MMO as among the top ten revenue generators in 2014. In fact it looks like the only people that The Old Republic is currently letting down are the executives at Electronic Arts. In its latest quarterly report, EA Games noted $454 million in revenue over the past three months, primarily driven by FIFA, Titanfall, and Battlefield 4 Premium Edition.
Not all of EA’s properties were up to projections, however, as the company blamed several of its products for a $400 million decrease in revenue.
This increase was partially offset by a $413 million decrease in revenue primarily from the SimCity, Crysis, Dead Space, and The Sims franchises, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
SimCity and The Old Republic are both responsible for a combined $63 million decrease in revenue, according to another section of the report. It is important to note that both monetary figures are decreases based on internal projections for the quarter, and do not conclude that any of the related studios are running at a loss.
(Source: EA Games Filing)
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